Improvement in bird-cages



F. J. MYERS'.

` BIRD-CAGE.

Patented-Feb. 29, r11876.

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NITED STATES PATENT O EEIcEc Vare more easily shipped and handled,

i vFREDERICK J. MEYERs,

OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT-'IN BIRD-CAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174.274, f November 11, 1875.

dated February 29, 1876; application filed To all whom Ait may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. MEYERs, ofOovington, Kenton county, Kentucky, have in vented a new and useful Bird-Cage, of Which the following is -a specification: l

flhis is an improved construction of those bird-cages which are for package and shipment by havinga separahle bottom, Whose temporary removal enables the introduction of another cage ofsmaller dimensions. A number of cages of diverse sizes, being thus nested one.Within the other, occupy, of course, much smaller dimensions, and are more cheaply transported than if separate.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section representing a number of cages thus nested. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section of the lowerlportion of my improved cage, the bottom being in place and the tray partially Withdrawn. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of said portion with the tray removed and the bottom partially withdrawn. Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective View, showing a portionof the grooved foot or bottom rail, which receives the separable` bottom.

A A A are three strips or rails, Which,

being miter'ed rectangularly together and firmly united to' theV body B, constitute or bottom frame of the cage. A groove, a, which passes entirely around the interior Walls of said frame lin the beads, receives, and retains the edges c of my separable bottom-C,

the foot tom for Withdrawal, so as to unpack the nestV of cages.

The rails A A A other hard wood.

rlhe separable bottom C being upheld by a groove, a, in the substance of the hard-Wood foot'A A A, does not encroach on the proper interior capacity ofthe cage, and is not liable to break loose.

I claim as new and ot" my invention- As a new article of' manufacture 4the'im- A A' A, having the central bin-ation with the removable bottom G, provided With centrally-grooved bead c', said ening, D, at the back, as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

FEED. J. MEYEEs.

v Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JOHN G. HEALY.

should be of maple or ,proved bird-cage, provided With bottom beads groove c, in combottom C being separably secured by a fast- 

